- #1 Life is Feudal: Your Own
97% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly gritty, realistic medieval survival experience with deep terraforming and complex crafting systems.
- #2 Medieval Dynasty
96% matchVery Positive90% of 51,427 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 18.2%, Building 16.4%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the rewarding process of building a settlement from the ground up within a realistic, historical-themed open world.
- #3 Eco
96% matchVery Positive81% of 13,962 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 89.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the collaborative, world-altering nature of Wurm, focusing on ecosystem management and large-scale construction.
- #4 Valheim
95% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.3%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, it provides a highly satisfying building and survival loop that feels like a more accessible version of the Wurm experience.
- #5 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
94% matchMixed52% of 4,025 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 39%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 8.4%, MMORPG 7.9% ★, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a direct spiritual successor to the survival-crafting MMO style, focusing on gathering, crafting, and building in a harsh wilderness.
- #6 ARK: Survival Evolved
94% matchVery Positive83% of 771,652 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 201.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title features extensive taming, crafting, and base-building mechanics that appeal to players who enjoy the progression depth of Wurm.
- #7 Project: Gorgon
93% matchVery Positive83% of 4,962 reviews2026
Dev: Elder Game, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Project: Gorgon is a fantasy MMORPG that allows you to forge your own path through exploration and discovery.
Why similar: MMORPG 27.8% ★, RPG 20.5%, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the old-school, skill-based progression and community-focused atmosphere found in classic sandbox MMORPGs.
- #8 Myth of Empires
92% matchMixed67% of 17,444 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.2 hrsMean: 229.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, MMORPG 11% ★, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game emphasizes large-scale construction, warfare, and complex crafting in a persistent medieval world.
- #9 Necesse
90% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a top-down, pixel-art take on the survival-crafting genre with a heavy focus on base management and world exploration.
- #10 Boundless
91% matchMixed69% of 2,770 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based sandbox allows players to travel between worlds, focusing on building and community-driven economies.
- #11 Citadel: Forged with Fire
91% matchMixed68% of 5,891 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Open World 13.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines sandbox survival with magic and base-building, offering a fantasy-heavy alternative to the Wurm setting.
- #12 Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG
89% matchMixed69% of 11,479 reviews2026
Dev: gamigo US
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, MMORPG 16.1% ★, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 8.5%, RPG 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic medieval setting with a strong focus on player-driven economy and territory control.
- #13 7 Days to Die
87% matchVery Positive87% of 402,373 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 109.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: The voxel-based destruction and building mechanics provide a similar sense of agency over the game world as seen in Wurm.
- #14 Rising World
89% matchVery Positive86% of 5,920 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on total freedom in building and terraforming, allowing for the same level of creative expression found in Wurm.
- #15 Dark and Light
88% matchMixed52% of 11,821 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 49.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Open World 16%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 11.9%, MMORPG 8.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: This game features a massive fantasy world with deep survival mechanics and a focus on taming and magical crafting.
- #16 BitCraft Online
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,620 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 98.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Join thousands of players in a true single-world MMORPG. Carve out a cozy nook, master a player-driven economy, or band together to transform the ancient wilderness into thriving cities. From humble beginnings to legend, your choices matter - because in BitCraft, your actions shape our world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, MMORPG 14.9% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a modern sandbox MMO that prioritizes exploration, building, and skill-based progression in a vast, interconnected world.
- #17 Creativerse
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.8%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a more accessible, voxel-based sandbox experience that emphasizes creativity and building in a persistent world.
- #18 Reign Of Kings
86% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the brutal, player-versus-player aspects of medieval survival and castle building.
- #19 Solace Crafting
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on an infinite open world with a heavy emphasis on crafting and survival progression.
- #20 Xsyon - Prelude
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, MMORPG 9.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic sandbox focuses heavily on community building and a player-driven economy.
- #21 Force of Nature
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,205 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends survival, crafting, and exploration with a top-down perspective, offering a streamlined sandbox experience.
- #22 Renown
81% matchMixed59% of 1,570 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game focuses on building, raiding, and social dynamics in a persistent medieval sandbox.
- #23 Planet Explorers
82% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features deep voxel-based terraforming and crafting on an alien planet, appealing to those who enjoy the technical aspects of Wurm.
- #24 Novus Inceptio
82% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience with a focus on crafting, building, and a complex skill system.
- #25 Stationeers
78% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.9%, Crafting 19.1%, Building 17.1%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, it matches the extreme technical depth and complexity of Wurm's crafting and management systems.
- #26 Life is Feudal: MMO
80% matchMixed40% of 7,347 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, MMORPG 11.1% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the large-scale, persistent world experience of the Life is Feudal series with a focus on massive player interaction.
- #27 Wurm Online
78% matchMixed63% of 2,546 reviews2020
Dev: Code Club AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, MMORPG 11.1% ★, Building 8.6%, RPG 7.4%
- #28 GRAV
79% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a sandbox survival experience on a procedurally generated planet with a focus on base construction.
- #29 Wild Terra Online
77% matchMixed60% of 1,842 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.1%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%, MMORPG 9.2% ★
- #30 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,271 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Open World 11%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.8%
- #31 Pax Dei
73% matchMixed57% of 11,100 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: MMORPG 16.2% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 14.5%, Base Building 10%
- #32 Savage Lands
74% matchMixed54% of 6,686 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #33 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #34 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
73% matchMixed59% of 460 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.1%
- #35 Blockscape
75% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7%
- #36 FortressCraft Evolved!
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,058 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.6%, Survival 7%
- #37 Dune: Awakening
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 77,257 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.8 hrsMean: 99.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.8%
- #38 Valnir Rok Survival RPG
74% matchMixed44% of 980 reviews2017
Dev: encurio
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Open World 18.5%, Survival 13.8%, RPG 8.3%, MMORPG 7.8% ★
- #39 Cubic Odyssey
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 9.3%, RPG 6.8%
- #40 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.7%, Building 9.6%
- #41 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
68% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.9%
- #42 Alchemist's Awakening
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #43 Re.poly
70% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #44 Mortal Online 2
69% matchMixed60% of 13,710 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 145.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?
Why similar: MMORPG 18.5% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #45 Mortal Online
71% matchMixed52% of 2,959 reviews2015
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Mortal Online is a first-person medieval fantasy MMORPG, set in a huge, open, unforgiving world. Choose your race, choose your playstyle, choose a profession, choose where to place your loyalties - if you have any...
Why similar: Open World 21.1%, Sandbox 18.8%, MMORPG 12.4% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 7.2%
- #46 Out of Reach
71% matchMixed57% of 3,049 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 7.2%
- #47 Outlaws of the Old West
70% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Open World 14.4%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 5.3%
- #48 In Next Life
67% matchMixed66% of 140 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10%, MMORPG 9% ★, Open World 8.7%
- #49 ENDALOR
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 255 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.3%, Building 8.2%
- #50 Realms of Magic
68% matchVery Positive81% of 994 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.2% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.7%, RPG 9.6%, Crafting 5.5%
- #51 Longvinter
65% matchMixed67% of 7,607 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #52 Dawn of Defiance
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,820 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.3%
- #53 Terraria
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,534,723 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.6 hrsMean: 150.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8%
- #54 The Warhorn
68% matchMixed54% of 346 reviews2019
Dev: Pigeons Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Warhorn is a medieval RPG mixed with city-building and management elements. Play as an adventurer who decided to leave his dull life as a lumberjack behind to explore a dangerous world full of puzzles in the pursuit of the most valuable relic mankind has ever seen: The Warhorn!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, RPG 15.7%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 7.6%
